Tuesday provided the clearest indication yet of what bills will receive an airing during the Oregon Legislature's February 2014 session.

By 5 p.m. Tuesday, lawmakers had to submit to legislative counsel concepts of bills they plan to introduce.

Here's where several high-profile issues landed:

Paid sick leave: No legislation will come out of an interim work group considering a statewide paid sick leave policy, said Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Beaverton. Lawmakers will wait to see how Portland implements its sick leave policy after it takes effect Jan. 1. "The general tenor is that people are not interested in doing major controversial topics in the short session, and this is a controversial topic," Steiner Hayward said. "As much as we think this is an important step forward in terms public health, we also understand that a lot of the business community has significant concerns."

Clean fuels: A bill clearing the way for Oregon to implement a new statewide clean fuel standard failed in the Oregon Senate earlier this year. Environmentalists want to revive the bill, but it’s still unclear if advocates can round up the votes. Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Springfield, sponsored the bill last session and said he was working with Gov. John Kitzhaber to bring it forward. “We’ll see what we end up with,” Beyer said.

Toxics: Another bill environmentalists want to revive in the short session would require the Oregon Health Authority to maintain a list of "high priority chemicals of concern," and require manufacturers with more than $5 million in annual sales to phase them out over five years or seek a waiver. The bill passed the House earlier this year, but died when the Legislature adjourned before the Senate voted on it. Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer, D-Portland, said she’ll reintroduce the legislation with minor tweaks. "It is a very popular bill when I talk with people, wherever I go," Keny-Guyer said.

Liquor
reform: Beyer has submitted a placeholder bill
regarding changes at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, which is examining a
range of options to reform the agency, from minor tweaks to letting some grocers
sell liquor. The agency faces a possible initiative effort to privatize liquor sales.

Oregon Trail cards: An interim work group looking at ways to reduce food stamps and welfare fraud decided against recommending that names of recipients be printed on the electronic Oregon Trail cards that store the benefits. Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany, said he considered introducing an individual bill on the issue but decided against it, in part because estimates pegged implementation costs at about $1.5 million. The work group recommended that the Department of Human Services receive more money in the 2015-17 budget to hire additional fraud investigators.

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